After a long night of back and forth results, Missouri Constitutional Amendment 3, as well as two other propositions, have been voted yes by residents.
Amendment 3 will legalize recreational marijuana in the state of Missouri, and will expunge arrest and drug convictions for non-violent marijuana-related offenses.
The measure passed with nearly 54 percent of the vote.
Amendment 4 will now require the Kansas City area to increase funding for its police department from 20 to 25 percent, as the Kansas City Police Department is controlled by the state of Missouri.
The measure passed with over 63 percent of the total vote.
Constitutional Amendment 5 was approved with over 60 percent of the vote, and will allow the Missouri National Guard to form its own department, under the supervision of Governor Mike Parson.
The National Guard was previously a part of the Missouri Department of Public Safety.
Constitutional Amendment 1 failed, with over 54 percent of Missouri residents voting against the measure. It would have allowed lawmakers in the state to override investment decisions made by the State Treasurer.
A Constitutional Convention measure failed as well, with nearly 68 percent of voters voting against.
The measure will not appear on the ballot for another 20 years.
Voters in Nixa decided not to pass a one-percent increase in the city’s sales tax Tuesday that would help fund a new police station and expand parks.
The ballot question failed at the polls Tuesday by nearly 350 votes.
Money from the tax would have been used to pay for a new police station, additional officers and parks improvements.
This summer, the city released plans for its new $13 million police department.
The Parks Department planned to spend $25 million for an 80,000 square foot indoor sports complex, which would have featured four basketball courts that could serve as eight volleyball courts or 12 pickleball courts.
Here are the results of other local issues on the ballot Tuesday in southwest Missouri:
City of Ozark use tax to fund public safety: No–60% Yes–40%
Strafford sales tax for law enforcement: Yes–66% No–34%
Fair Play sales tax for law enforcement: Yes–54.5% No–45.5%
Stotts City Use Tax Issue: No–59% Yes–41%
City of Monett Use Tax Issue: Yes—55% No–45%
Laclede County Surtax Rate Reduction: No—60% Yes–40%
In the races for congressional representatives, two incumbent Republicans return to congress and two new Republicans are elected.
In Missouri U-S House District 3, Blaine Luetkemeyer beat Democratic challenger Bethany Mann and, in U-S House District 8, Jason Smith beat Democratic challenger Randi McCallian and Libertarian Jim Higgins.
In the race for U-S House District 7, Republican Eric Burlison won the race over Democrat Kristen Radaker-Scheafer and Libertarian Kevin Craig, for the seat formerly held by Billy Long.
In the race for District 4, Republican Mark Alford beat Democrat Jack Truman, for the seat formerly held by Vicky Hartzler.
Rihanna’s long-awaited return yields an immediate chart-topper as “Lift Me Up” debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart dated Nov. 12. The single, from the soundtrack to the Marvel Studios/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, gives the superstar her eighth champ on the list.
“Lift” traces its arrival on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, which combines streaming, sales and radio airplay, to 22.6 million official U.S. streams in the week ending Nov. 3, according to Luminate. The sum sparks a No. 1 start on R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs to secure Rihanna’s fifth career leader there. In the same period, the track sold 23,000 downloads and opens at No. 2 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales list. On the airplay front, “Lift” registered 42.6 million in radio audience across all formats. (All airplay, regardless of genre format, contributes to a song’s rank on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.)
The new champ gives Rihanna her eighth No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and her first in more than five years. Here’s a recap of her collection:
Song Title, Artist (if other than Rihanna), Weeks at No. 1, Reached at No. 1 “Take a Bow,” one, Aug. 30, 2008 “Diamonds,” 14, Oct. 20, 2012 “The Monster,” Eminem featuring Rihanna, 13, Nov. 16, 2013 “FourFiveSeconds,” with Ye & Paul McCartney, seven, Feb. 21, 2015 “Work,” featuring Drake, 11, Feb. 13, 2016 “Needed Me,” two, Sept. 24, 2016 “Wild Thoughts,” DJ Khaled featuring Rihanna & Bryson Tiller, seven, July 29, 2017 “Lift Me Up,” one (to date), Nov. 12, 2022
Elsewhere, “Lift Me Up,” likewise debuts at No. 1 on the Hot R&B Songs chart, where the superstar lands her sixth champ. The achievement extends her record as the female artist with the most No. 1s on the list, which began in 2012. Overall, Rihanna ranks third in the count, behind The Weeknd (nine) and Drake (seven).
Echoing its strong out-of-the-gate streaming and sales placements, the song also remains a force on multiple radio genre formats after the first full tracking week, which runs Monday – Sunday, following the song’s Oct. 28 release. It ascends 27-16 on Rhythmic Airplay, 24-18 on Adult Pop Airplay, 25-20 on Pop Airplay and 26-22 on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay. Plus, it repeats at No. 17 on Adult Contemporary.
The 1975 frontman Matty Healy brought out an unusual snack while onstage at the band’s New York show: raw meat. The British singer pulled out a slab of red meat while performing at Madison Square Garden, causing a major spectacle.
A shirtless Healy devoured the meat before getting on his knees and crawling across the stage.
The spectacle was not new for fans of The 1975, who are used to Healy’s onstage antics. Even Healy’s mother, actress Denise Welch, tweeted that she witnessed his bizarre behavior as well. “I saw it too,” she wrote with three cry-laughing emojis in response to a journalist who tweeted: “There is no way I could possibly explain to my 18-year-old self that I just watched Matty Healy grope himself onstage and eat a raw steak before crawling into a television.”
It wasn’t just viewers in New York that got to see the act: The concert was broadcast on Twitch as a part of an Amazon Music UK event.
The band is currently on tour after releasing its fifth studio album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language, last month. The Madison Square Garden show is just the tour’s third stop since beginning Nov. 3 in Connecticut. The North American leg of the band’s tour will end in Pittsburgh on Dec. 17.
On Tuesday (Nov. 8), Britney Spears put to rest any speculation of a biopic about her life and career coming anytime soon.
“Yeah I know I’ve posted too much this week on Instagram… kinda fun though !!! Now that I’m breathing … I have time … it’s different !!! I like it !!!” she posted alongside an artsy photo of a set of doors. “I hear about people wanting to do movies about my life … dude I’m not dead !!!”
Without naming names, the “Hold Me Closer” singer’s thoughts on a potential movie adaptation of her life came hours after Millie Bobby Brown claimed that playing Spears would be her dream role in an interview on The Drew Barrymore Show. “I think her story, first of all, resonates with me,” the 18-year-old Stranger Things actress said on the show. “Growing up in the public eye, watching her videos, watching interviews of her when she was young…And I don’t know her, but when I look at pictures of her, I feel like I could tell her story in the right way — and hers only.”
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However, after shooting down the possibility of a biopic, Spears immediately turned her ire on her parents, Jamie and Lynne Spears, over keeping her in the legal conservatorship that controlled her life for 13 years. “Although it’s pretty f—ing clear they preferred me dead,” she continued in her lengthy caption followed by a series of eye-rolling emojis. “I guess my family is going to lock their doors now.”
Meanwhile, if Spears isn’t down to work with her, Brown still has her secret collaborations with pal Mariah Carey to focus on, having hinted on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon recently that she’s already recorded music with the Elusive Chanteuse herself.
Read Britney’s latest Instagram post in full below.
With 8 billion views, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee‘s “Despacito” extends its reign as the most-viewed music video on YouTube — by a long shot.
The closest competitor to the nearly five-minute clip for the 2017 smash hit is Ed Sheeran‘s “Shape of You,” which has raked in 5.8 billion views.
“Who would of thought that a melody over my guitar that morning in my house would be listened to in so many places, by so many people,” Fonsi wrote on social media celebrating the song’s new milestone. “It’s been almost six years and I still can’t believe it. The words THANK YOU don’t cover it. 8 billion views, sounds so nice.”
Fonsi continued thanking those who made it all possible, including Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber who jumped on the remix, his co-writer Erika Ender, producers Andrés Torres and Mauricio Rengifo and video director Carlos Pérez, to name a few, and his island of Puerto Rico, where they filmed the video, featuring former Miss Universe Zuleyka Rivera.
“Despacito,” released via Universal Music Latino in January 2017, is the gift that keeps on giving. Four months after the music video made its debut on YouTube, it hit the 1 billion mark back when it got a boost from a bilingual remix that featured Bieber.
Five years ago in May, the remix with Bieber reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and made global history. Furthermore, “Despacito” topped the Hot Latin Songs chart for a record 56 (non-consecutive) weeks, spending the most weeks at No. 1 for any title since the chart’s inception in 1986.
As previously reported, Jeff Cook, of cornerstone country group Alabama, died Tuesday (Nov. 8) at age 73 at his home in Destin, Fla., according to Don Murry Grubbs, a representative for the band.
The band became an unprecedented force on Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs chart, amassing 33 No. 1s – the most among duos or groups – among 51 top 10s between 1980 and 2011.
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The group – with Cook, on guitar, fiddle, keyboards and backing vocals, and his cousins Randy Owen (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) and Teddy Gentry (bass, backing vocals) its longest-running members, dating to its 1969 formation in Fort Payne, Ala. – first topped Hot Country Songs with its first top 10, “Tennessee River,” in August 1980. Starting with the song, the band rattled off a record 21 No. 1s in a row (counting proper, non-seasonal singles) through 1987, highlighting its signature mix of rollicking core-country, pop-rock touches and affecting ballads.
Alabama also scored crossover success, notching five top 10s on the Adult Contemporary chart. On the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, the band tallied three top 20 hits, as well as its No. 29-peaking 1999 collaboration with *NSYNC, an update of the latter’s “God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You.”
Alabama added its 33rd Hot Country Songs leader as featured on Brad Paisley’s 2011 tribute track “Old Alabama.” Among all acts, only George Strait (44), Conway Twitty (40), Merle Haggard (38) and Ronnie Milsap (35) have more No. 1s on the ranking.
On Top Country Albums, Alabama has charted 11 No. 1s among 26 top 10s, most recently reaching the top 10 with the No. 2-peaking Southern Drawl in 2015. Two years earlier, Alabama & Friends reached No. 2, with the set sporting covers of the group’s classics by stars including Kenny Chesney, Florida Georgia Line and Trisha Yearwood.
Just last month, Alabama hit the Country Digital Song Sales chart with its 1983 Hot Country Songs No. 1 “Dixieland Delight,” sparked by the song’s prominent part in the celebration of the University of Tennessee football team’s triumph Oct. 15.
Here is a recap of Alabama’s most successful singles on Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs chart. The group’s 1989 No. 1 “High Cotton” tops the tally. “We were walkin’ in high cotton,” Owen sings in the song, which echoes the band’s musical legacy. “Old times there are not forgotten. Those fertile fields are never far away.”
Alabama’s 40 Biggest Billboard Hits:
1, “High Cotton,” No. 1 (one week), 1989 2, “Down Home,” No. 1 (three weeks), 1991 3, “Forever’s as Far as I’ll Go,” No. 1 (one week), 1991 4, “Jukebox in My Mind,” No. 1 (four weeks), 1990 5, “Dixieland Delight,” No. 1 (one week), 1983 6, “Love in the First Degree,” No. 1 (two weeks), 1981 7, “Feels So Right,” No. 1 (two weeks), 1981 8, “Fallin’ Again,” No. 1 (one week), 1988 9, “If You’re Gonna Play in Texas,” No. 1 (one week), 1984 10, “Can’t Keep a Good Man Down,” No. 1 (one week), 1985
11, “Lady Down on Love,” No. 1 (one week), 1983 12, “There’s No Way,” No. 1 (one week), 1985 13, “Song of the South,” No. 1 (one week), 1989 14, “40 Hour Week (For a Livin’),” No. 1 (one week), 1985 15, “Old Flame,” No. 1 (one week), 1981 16, “Face to Face,” No. 1 (one week), 1988 17, “The Closer You Get,” No. 1 (one week), 1983 18, “Take Me Down,” No. 1 (one week), 1982 19, “If I Had You,” No. 1 (one week), 1989 20, “She and I,” No. 1 (one week), 1986
21, “Reckless,” No. 1 (one week), 1993 22, “Why Lady Why,” No. 1 (one week), 1980 23, “I’m in a Hurry (And Don’t Know Why),” No. 1 (two weeks), 1992 24, “Tennessee River,” No. 1 (one week), 1980 25, “‘You’ve Got’ The Touch,” No. 1 (one week), 1987 26, “Mountain Music,” No. 1 (one week), 1982 27, “Touch Me When We’re Dancing,” No. 1 (one week), 1986 28, “Close Enough to Perfect,” No. 1 (one week), 1982 29, “Southern Star,” No. 1 (one week), 1990 30, ” (There’s A) Fire in the Night,” No. 1 (one week), 1985
31, “Old Alabama” (Brad Paisley feat. Alabama), No. 1 (two weeks), 2011 32, “Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler),” No. 1 (one week), 1984 33, “Here We Are,” No. 2, 1991 34, “When We Make Love,” No. 1 (one week), 1984 35, “Hometown Honeymoon,” No. 3, 1993 36, “Pass It On Down,” No. 3, 1990 37, “Take a Little Trip,” No. 2, 1992 38, “Born Country,” No. 2, 1992 39, “Then Again,” No. 4, 1991 40, “Once Upon a Lifetime,” No. 3, 1993
Alabama’s 40 Biggest Billboard Hits recap is based on actual performance on Billboard‘s weekly Hot Country Songs chart. The ranking is based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 having the greatest value and weeks at lower ranks proportionately less. Due to various changes in chart rules and methodology through the years, songs have had reigns at No. 1 and on the chart of varying average lengths. To ensure equitable representation of the biggest hits from all years, certain time frames were weighted to account for the differences in song turnover rates.
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